I was just informed that my daughter (age 23) also has a malrotated left kidney. She recently had an MRI of the lumbar spine and that is where they found it. Of all her other imaging tests, it never showed up either. I was wondering the same thing, as she is experiencing a great deal of low back/pelvic pain.

Let me know if you find anything out.

lonj17

hi there, im a 28 year old female and just found out i have a malrotated kidney in my pelvis, i have been suffering with unbearable pain for 3 years now, and nothing has ever been found, until last week, i knew i had a pelvic kidney which they doctors told me was the cause of all my urine infections i keep getting, latley its all got worse, i was admitted to hospital 6 weks ago, the pain was so bad i thought i was going to die, worse than labour! i had bllod in my urine, and couldnt wee properly, my back and pelvis was so painful i just couldnt move, i was vomiting, sweating, god, it was just awlful, the doctors found a malrotated pelvic kidney, basically the kidney is twisted, which is causing me all this grief, i cant belive it only just been found after all this time, aparantly normal ultrasound scan are difficult to pick this problem up, now i know why i have given birth prematurley to al my children, the doctor said its because of the kidney being in my pelvis and also because it is malrotated, im seeing a kidney specialist in the next 2 weeks, the doctor said it might be possibly they will want to remove the kidney as im young and having so much pain, with 2 children to look after, its very worrying, but i feel so rough. i just want to feel well again.